Detoxification Factsheet

Detox has become such as overused word in recent years.

But, far from being a vague term, detoxification actually refers to specific metabolic processes in the body, especially the liver, responsible for the breakdown and output of waste, if you like.

Quite simply, if you don't have the right nutrients in the right place at the right time for those processes to work, the body can become toxic and sluggish to say the least. You have to be able to achieve what's called 'conjugation' of some pretty nasty compounds that both come into the body from the environment and food and that we make ourselves inside.

True detox is ensuring this process is able to happen efficiently.

Generally-speaking, it takes me around 6-12 weeks to detox a person effectively so don't take any notice of 3 day detoxes for example. It's quite simple to get the stuff to come out of tissues, cells and organs, but not so simple to get the body to break them down and actually eliminate them. In reality, a lot of people detoxing feel rough as the stuff hits the blood stream, it recirculates a bit and then pretty much goes back where it was hiding UNLESS you can achieve Phase 2 detoxification processes.

To read and understand more about this fascinating issue, download the Detoxification Factsheet.